The Daily Chord Weekly Recap – Friday, September 2

August turned into September this week and SXSW's Daily Chord linked to VMA recaps and fall music previews. Uncertainty swirled around CMJ's 2016 status and Stereogum looked at the event at length. Frank Ocean's Blonde led to exclusivity beefs and examination of record release strategies. These stories and more are easily clickable at our weekly recap.

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Monday, August 29

• 2016 MTV VMAs: See the full winners list
  List from MTV
• Frank Ocean's 'Blonde' amplifies discord in the music business
  Story from NY Times
• FYF Fest impresses in sound, but feels on the precipice of change
  Review from LA Times
• Lost festival: Blacked-out buses, secret locations and absolutely no phones
  Post from The Guardian
• Rudy Van Gelder, definitive jazz recording engineer, has died
  Obituary from NPR
• Mexican superstar Juan Gabriel dies at 66
  Obituary from Billboard

Tuesday, August 30

• CMJ sure seems to be over. So how come nobody is talking about it?
  Feature from Stereogum
• TV audience for MTV VMAs drops, while Facebook streams rise tenfold
  Post from BBC News
• In 'Good Vibrations,' summer fun soured by Mike Love's score settling
  Review from NY Times
• Sturgill Simpson: I will be 'blackballed from the industry'
  Post from Rolling Stone
• Revelator raises $2.5 million to build a business platform for digital music
  Post from TechCrunch
• This musician's tweet about sexist labeling in a record store will annoy you
  Post from Mashable

Wednesday, August 31

• The streaming music war is getting ugly
  Story from CNN Money
• 'Blurred Lines' appeal gets support from more than 200 musicians
  Post from The Hollywood Reporter
• Chicago proposal aims to clear up what 'music' means, save small venues
  Post from Pitchfork
• Texas governor Greg Abbott urges DOJ to reconsider changes to PRO licensing model
  Post from Music Think Tank
• It's oh so cultural: The sharpest sounds of autumn 2016
  List from The Guardian
• Slick music player visualizes song lyrics, costs $3000
  Post from CNET

Thursday, September 1

• Bro country duets, but with pop star gals
  Story from NY Times
• Björk: 'I build bridges between tech and the human things we do'
  Post from The Guardian
• An oral history of 'We Built This City,' the worst song of all time
  Post from GQ
• Blind Melon sues 'Insane' songwriters for covering up 'No Rain' infringement
  Post from Hollywood Reporter
• People may be more cooperative after listening to upbeat music
  Post from Scientific American
• The 96 best alternative rock songs of 1996
  List from Spin

Friday, September 2

• 20 different ways to release an album: From Beyoncé to Frank Ocean to U2 and beyond
  Post from Billboard
• They had the beat: The Go-Go's say goodbye at The Greek
  Review from LA Times
• The trip-hop X-Files: All the evidence that says Massive Attack are actually Banksy
  Post from NME
• The iPhone 7's setting headphone trends, and it isn't even here yet
  Post from CNET
• Chuck Eddy's 'Terminated For Reasons Of Taste' reads like an eclectic Spotify mix on shuffle
  Review from Pop Matters
• Fall pop preview: Does 2016 have any blockbusters left in it?
  Feature from Stereogum